Hi,, Just curious if there are other single moms with teens who are trying to figure out the best work schedule?? I have discovered there is no perfect shift for me.. Days sounds ideal but really, when I was orienting days, my son missed the bus twice, forgot lunch money, my daughter got sick at school,,,there wasn't anything I could do about any of it! Now I work pms M-F and am home by 11p,, so I am home to take them to school on the mornings (which is something that is important to them both) and be there if anyone forgets their homework or lunch money.. but not there in the eve. They always took the bus home or walked so that did not change... On a typical week night, they are in their rooms, doing homework, etc so I don't see whole lot of them anyway..I felt kinda weird about doing NOC shift because it seems wrong to leave them alone overnight (16 and 13).My kids are really great, never had any kind of trouble, very responsible..not the stereotypical teens..they prefer I do pms over days after the two weeks of orientation when everything went wrong and I couldn't come..,,well I got a call from work to see if I could do a NOC over the weekend. I talked to my daughter and asked how she felt if I tried it once and see how it went ( we can really (REALLY) use the extra $),,,she was like "why not all we are doing is sleeping"..our N'hood is the safest around, have a house alarm, have 2 huge dogs and I kept my phone on the desk out constantly checking it..There were no problems,,having said that..why do I still feel weird about doing that? Part of me thinks,, what's the big deal, it's not like I was out in a bar all night and most robberies happen in the day time ..yet I still feel like a bad mom..on Mothers Day no less..(ps asking the dad for help here is not optional)
